Back by the stream, the sun was almost noon, and the weather was already clear, but a cloud came from nowhere, and sporadic rain suddenly floated up, caressing my shoulders like catkins. It really is "the sun rises in the east and the west rain". However, the wet rain not only failed to dispel the interest of the writers by the stream, but added another poetic flavor to the spring scene.
A few tea sheds were set up on both sides of the mountain road. They looked simple, but they were actually well-equipped. Some of the shopkeepers are farmers from the nearby mountain villages. They set up a small stall and sell some ready-made food. There are small tables with rough noodles on the bottom, and hot copper noodles are boiled in the back. If it happens to come, in addition to the thirst-quenching tea soup, you can even eat several delicious side dishes.
It's early spring, and the ground is full of greens, so it's easy to cook, and the wild greens are all local materials. When you are free, pick a handful of wild vegetables under the trees in the forest, wash them in the stream along the way, and then put them into the pot. You only need to stir fry them with a little salt sauce, and they will be fresh on the plate in a while. A plate of side dishes is so green that it makes people happy to look at it. If it is paired with a palm-sized shortbread, it will really have a unique country style.
But rich and noble families look down on these vulgar foods, and most of them will bring their own staff and ingredients, and just borrow the fire from the store. The two of Yu Jinnian walked out against the light rain, and the several large tea sheds were already full of people, and the elegant ones even erected silk-covered beaded screens, and a dozen or twenty entourages hurried back and forth. Go, unload your own cups and plates from the carriage, and arrange them in an orderly manner.
Naturally, Zhuhua Pavilion also sent a few employees to do business, and set up a small stall to sell some tea powder and fragrant, glutinous and beautiful flower cakes. Yu Jinnian came out all dirty, patted the mud on his body, and was about to go to the stream to wash, when he turned his head and looked at Ji Hong, he was handsome, clean and fair, like a green bamboo that had just become a fairy, Full of indescribable bookishness.
Compared with him, I really look like a flopping wild rabbit, only a grass in my mouth, so I can't stand it on the table.
Yu Jinnian was "secretly sad", and a few cake sellers in Zhuhua Pavilion quietly surrounded him. Perhaps it was because he was born with an easy-going and easy-going appearance, so even if there was a fairy-like Ji Hong standing next to him, he couldn't resist The little girls smiled sweetly at Yu Jinnian.
"We have peach cake."
"And peach blossom wine!"
The two little girls said one by one, and took something out of the basket: "Do you want to try it?"
Yu Jinnian was caught off guard, and wanted to reach out to pick it up, but a sleeve was blocked in front of him first. Ji Hong took it for him without saying a word, and when he turned around and saw his stupid face, he couldn't help but cast a glance at his face. Before he could speak, Yu Jinnian rubbed his hands on his clothes indifferently, and was about to get that peach cake.
Ji Hong dodged left and right, and Yu Jinnian was bluffed. He hadn't eaten a grain of rice all morning, so he couldn't help asking depressedly at this moment: "What are you doing?"
"Wash your hands." Ji Hongyan said concisely, as if he was reluctant to say a word.
He didn't bring a sweat towel, so the little girl from Zhuhuage next to him took out a handkerchief with a smile: "On the way here, our proprietress praised you, saying that your cooking is good, but Mr. Lu is such a picky weirdo, but you are so picky. It’s because not a single bone was picked out of your egg. The proprietress told us to ask you for more advice, you should do me a favor and teach us a few when I get back!”
Seeing Yu Jinnian staring at the embroidery pattern on the handkerchief, they happily said, "We embroidered it ourselves. We embroidered a lot. The guests like it. You like to give it to you!"
Yu Jinnian didn't hear the meaning of teasing inside, he just remembered Erniang through the pattern on the handkerchief, he would come back to his senses after a while, and asked them seriously what they wanted to learn, but before they opened their mouths, Ji Hong turned half of his body to block it, and said "Thank you, no need" expressionlessly, and took him away by force, and took him to the stream to wash his hands honestly.
How can you say that you can relax physically and mentally by taking a breath? After picking wild vegetables and weeds this morning, Yu Jinnian really felt much more comfortable in his heart. Seeing his hands being pressed into the water by Ji Hong, he was depressed. The depression of many days seems to flow away with the mud under the nails.
The stream was so clear that it was difficult to reflect half of the clouds in the sky. Yu Jinnian changed from washing his hands to playing with water, and even took the basket and washed the wild vegetables in it. Ji Hong didn't say a word, but just looked up at the sky. Although the light rain was heavy, it didn't hurt people very much, but it was also dense. He retracted his gaze, silently opened his arm to cover the boy's head, and opened his sleeve with the other hand. The frame blocked most of the rain.
Yu Jinnian stared at the water and suddenly exclaimed: "Ouch!" He stood up with a grunt, bumped his head on Ji Hong's arm again, and said "Ouch" again and again.
Ji Hong hurriedly withdrew his hands, saw his body shaking, and went to pick it up nervously: "What's wrong?"
Yu Jinnian stuffed the washed vegetables in his hand into the basket, then pointed to a stream of water with great interest and said, "Shrimp, little shrimp. Hey, come and help!"
After a while, Qinghuan saw that the two of them had not returned home, so she came looking for them under an umbrella, and finally saw a figure from the back who was almost drenched by the side of the stream pool. The boy who went into the water. At first, Qing Huan thought that they had dropped something into the water, and was anxiously stepping forward to help, but when she saw the clear and frivolous little shrimps in the basket at her feet, she stomped her feet angrily: "It's just right!" I was sick and came out to fish for shrimps!"
She turned her head to look at Ji Hong, and found that Mr. Ji was much more wet than Yu Jinnian, and her two sleeves were sticking to her arms. She quickly pulled out the handkerchief from the skirt and handed it over: "... Mr. Ji, why don't you Follow him around?"
Ji Hong smiled silently, but his eyes were full of helplessness. He took the handkerchief and was about to brush off the water on his body when he saw Yu Jinnian's wet nose in a blink of an eye. He dipped his face, Yu Jinnian closed one eye and let the other party wipe his face all over.
Standing aside, Qing Huan suddenly felt that she was a bit redundant, and after a long time, she remembered what she was looking for Yu Jinnian for: "There are people making trouble at Boss Su's place, and in this wilderness, you must say that you want to eat Boss Su's." Peach Blossom Cake spoiled his stomach, Boss Su invited him to see the doctor, but the man refused." Qing Huan pouted, "I don't think they know what to do, they just see that they are a group of girls, playing tricks and molesting People! Boss Su didn't want to cause trouble, and was afraid of smashing the signboard, so he kept backing down. Su Ting and the others helped, and there was a mess... "
After a few words, Yu Jinnian understood that he wanted to call him to save the scene, he tidied up and rolled up his sleeves: "Okay, don't worry, I'll go over and have a look."
He carried a basket of fresh vegetables and shrimps that were still dripping, and went back on tiptoe. From a distance, he saw Su Qing'er surrounded by a group of people. A few overturned, a mess. Boss Rao Su used to be eloquent and thoughtful, but she was still a girl after all, and she was a little flustered when she met such a shameless person.
Just as I was about to pass by, I saw two girls coming out from the shade of a nearby tree, one behind the other in a hurry, looking carefully, the one in the back seemed to be smiling, and the one in the front was probably Qi Wenjun, and the two stepped on each other's shadows tightly After tugging for a long time, it seemed that they were arguing and shouting. It's just that there was a lot of trouble here, which attracted everyone, but no one noticed them.
"Sister, sister!" Hanxiao ran two steps, looked up and saw Yu Jinnian and others approaching from a distance, she quickly lowered her head as if she was afraid of being discovered, and waited for them to walk past before raising her legs to chase again.
Qi Wenjun passed him by, with a scent of grass on his body, Yu Jinnian turned to look at her, and felt that her figure was very similar to the hurried girl he saw in the forest, but the forest was hazy at that time, and he He didn't see too clearly, besides, his mind was on the troublemaker right now, so he didn't investigate much.
"Killed, killed!" The troublemaker was thin and thin, and he didn't look very old, but he was easy to catch, without any shame, Yu Jinnian approached, and was hit by a peach cake scratched the back of his instep, "The Zhuhua Pavilion shop is a big bully, and it sells moldy pancakes! Why do you look down on me!"
This man scolded loudly, spit all over his mouth, and the tea bowl at his feet was shattered all over the ground, which really ruined the springtime in this pool by the stream. Many people recognized him, and a handyman spat on him, Said sarcastically: "Hey, isn't this Li Gou? Why, whose money was stolen?"
In the "busy schedule" of throwing things, the man was able to find time to scold the buddy: "I'm fucking your grandma, who are you talking about!"
Speaking of this person, it is quite interesting.
This man is well-known in Taoxi Town, his name is Li Hu, and no one knows where he came from, only that he is idle and not doing his job properly. It is said that he worked hard in the past. He was a man who sold bean curds in the streets and alleys. Because his business was not good and he didn't have the brains to improve his own bean curd formula, his life was extremely difficult.
This person was not able to eat enough to wear clothes every day, and he was so poor that he finally saved money to buy a child bride-in-law. Unfortunately, he encountered a severe epidemic and died of illness the next year. Li Hu was depressed for a long time because of this. As a result, the douhuaer became even more unpalatable, and soon became poor and almost like a beggar. The folks in Taoxi Town are simple and honest, seeing how pitiful he is, the townspeople will inevitably reach out to help him and give him some small favors.
It turned out that it was okay if they didn't help, but something happened to the gang.
As the saying goes, "Dou Mien, bear Mienne", Li Hu became addicted to food relief, and found that he didn't have to do anything, and his life was more nourishing than before. Sometimes he could hold a little money in his hand, and gradually What's more, I just become lazy and go to the street every day with an empty burden to cry and sympathize. Everyone is not stupid, there is no reason to spend money to raise a lazy man, and gradually no one pays attention to him.
When Li Hu came back to his senses, he had become a notorious little scoundrel among his neighbors far away, but he still didn't know how to repent, and he didn't want to make progress. The townspeople whom he extended his hands to did more and more idiots, their mouths seemed to be poisoned, and they scolded them all day long for being vicious and hard-hearted.
Anyone in this town who has suffered from him, now mostly avoids him, so Li Hu can't prevent Li Hu from brazenly coming up to blackmail others, and if he can't get money, he will kill a thousand enemies and lose himself Eight hundred, even if it hurts both sides, it won't make people feel better. The yamen servants of the government will see him once every three days, which is really a headache, and the official lord criticized him for this, "It's not a blocker, it's clearly a loafing dog"!
After this and that, no one called the majestic real name "Li Hu" anymore, leaving only the nickname of "Xiao Hu is like a dog instead of a dog".
But if the word "dog" can make Li Hu feel ashamed, and then work hard to become stronger, then he will not blackmail Su Niang with a raised eyebrow at this time, and he will be fine if he is called Li Gou in front of the guy. Human-like, his skin is as thick as a city wall.
"It was you who called me, what's the matter?" The buddy didn't show any stage fright, and he didn't take him seriously at all, "I thought I had a tiger in my name, but I'm really a tiger? I don't want to piss and take pictures of myself." , saying that you are a big bug is flattering you! Why, I didn’t have enough of Zhang’s white seats yesterday, but today I want to eat Li’s?”
Li Hu stared at him, trying to put on a fierce look in his eyes, but he was helpless by nature, and no matter how he gestured, his face would be full With a wretched look, he didn't show a bit of tiger spirit, but it made everyone laugh out loud.
Li Hu made such a fuss, after all, there are still many foreigners who don't know what is right and wrong, and have doubts about the food in Zhuhua Pavilion. The little girls who sell cakes on the side have worn out their mouths and refused to buy any more. Seeing Su Qing'er's good looks, Li Hu who fell on the ground couldn't help feeling dirty, and suddenly jumped up and bumped into her. Su Qing'er screamed, and before he had time to hide, he was blocked by someone behind him.
She opened her eyes and took a look, and saw that it was a fair-skinned scholar who was bumped into by Li Hu: "You..."
Su Ting hadn't recovered yet, only to hear that the villain complained first, and sat on the ground and shouted: "Ouch! I hit someone! I hit someone! The proprietress of Zhuhua Pavilion hooked up with a wild man to kill him!"
As long as it is a person with eyes, no one can see Li Hu's tricks, but everyone knows that Li Hu is like a tiger skin plaster. Who can't peel off the skin and give it to him? So no one is willing to go up and wade into this muddy water, and some people in turn persuade Su Niang to be patient, give some money away, and let the matter rest.
Even though Su Niang had an exquisite mind, she couldn't bear it any longer, and trembled with anger: "You rascal!"
Su Ting was hit as if water had entered his head, and there was a crashing sound. Just as he shook his head, he was supported by a person, and he touched a forehead bump that was knocked out by Li Hu with one hand, and asked: " Are you okay?"
Su Ting took a closer look and said in a low voice, "...Mr. Xiao."
Yu Jinnian asked him to lean back, while he bent down to look at the man on the ground. Li Hu was going to use his usual bastard tricks, suddenly raised his head, met a pair of peach-like eyes, and was looking at himself with a smile.
"What's wrong with eating something bad?" He asked.
"Where did you come from, it's none of your business!" Li Hu scolded, turned around and saw a young man in front of him, with dark eyebrows and a peachy face, who was thinking about how to blackmail him, when Yu Jinnian asked, Then I suddenly remembered to continue howling: "Ah, it hurts, it's not good at all! He also hit me, you have to pay for the medicine with me! Ouch..."
Before he finished exhaling, he heard someone's stomach growl inappropriately, and he immediately covered it with both hands.
Some people are poor not only because they don’t know how to make money, but also because they have no winks and insist on provoking people they can’t afford. Yu Jinnian couldn’t hold back and laughed out loud: “Is it pain or hunger?”
Li Hu put on a face that a dead pig is not afraid of being scalded by boiling water.
"Except for things that cannot be bought and things that cannot be bought, everything else in this world is clearly marked with a price. Don't you think so?" Yu Jinnian hooked a stool with his feet, lifted his clothes and sat down, bending his eyes, "Speaking of it Coincidentally, I am a doctor. In this way, let me show you that if you are really sick, I will pay you whatever money it costs. As for me, I hate others to lie to me. If the illness is not serious, then we have to calculate carefully, you are disturbing my leisure by making such a fuss, and I don’t ask much, so I will cut you a note and pickle a snack. How about it?”
Li Hu didn't answer, Yu Jinnian rubbed his fingers, and Duan Ming, who was watching the fun, immediately took a pair of iron scissors in three steps at a time, slapped it fiercely on the table, and then grabbed Li Hu's wrist, Push him down on the table.
"Hey, do you know how to make koutiao delicious? Wash the freshly plucked koutiao, add scallion and ginger, and boil it with strong wine." Yu Jinnian stared at Li Hu's mouth, and took out a piece of food from the chopstick cage. Bamboo chopsticks, "Wait until you poke it lightly with the tip of the chopsticks, it's through! It's done."
He stabbed the chopsticks on the table, making Li Hu tremble in fright, as if a hole had been poked in his tongue, Yu Jinnian waved his hand and said: "This is the head, after that, use star anise, dried cinnamon, tangerine peel Wait for all kinds of spices, cook them together with longan and red dates to make a marinade, then add wine, and continue to stew the noodles... Tsk tsk, after two hours, the aroma of wine will overflow, that is a glutton!"
"This is called Baizuikoutiao."
Li Hu gulped, wondering if he was fascinated by this practice.
Just as Yu Jinnian rolled up his sleeves, Li Hu, who had already been stunned and barely reacted, howled immediately: "—Wait a minute!"
"Ah, what's the matter?" Yu Jinnian tilted his head and asked in doubt, "Illness is not forgiving, of course, and words are not forgiving. What are you waiting for?"
Li Hu gritted his teeth, but he couldn't break free from Duan Ming's grip. He said with a mournful face, "I suddenly recovered, recovered! It doesn't hurt anymore!"
Yu Jinnian shook his head, and stretched out his hand to get his pulse seriously and responsibly: "It doesn't hurt anymore? That's not okay, you have to take a closer look, what if it looks good on the outside, but the inside is rotten? This moldy pancake is the one inside the core. The most poisonous, that is really fatal."
What he said was obviously a curse, but Li Hu was afraid of being tough, and he didn't dare to say a word, for fear of being ripped open and fried into a dish. No matter how venomous his mouth is, no matter how dissatisfied he is in his heart, in order not to become a "drunk mouth" at this time, he can only smile bitterly at Yu Jinnian, but he can't say that he is sick, let alone that he is not sick. I was so entangled that I was about to cry: "Don't bother me, the small meat is rough, and it heals quickly. It's just moldy pancakes. It's no big deal if you eat two bites..."
To put it bluntly, Taoxi Town is just a small town with beautiful scenery. There are few wealthy households and few noble families. evil people. Occasionally, a few high-ranking officials and nobles who come to enjoy the scenery during the spring and summer, are also like gods, coming and going on a crane, and disappearing without a trace.
That's why a monkey like Li Hu is called the overlord, and he still thinks he is a ruthless character. Now here comes a real overlord, his tricks are not enough to make a scene in front of people's eyes, he is simply laughable and generous, making people applaud.
Several people taught Li Hu a big lesson, and threw the man who was so frightened that his tears flowed out. Yu Jinnian lay on the table and sipped his teacup, shaking his head to peek at Ji Hong. Hu still had a fake smile on his face, and it seemed to be filled with a bright sun in an instant, and asked sincerely: "What do you want to eat?"
Ji Hong put down the teacup slowly, and frowned: "It's just a note."
Yu Jinnian laughed and fell on the table.
How could he be willing to give Mr. Ji something out of that vulgar thing's mouth? Naturally, he had to cook a few delicate side dishes carefully and earnestly. Fortunately, there were freshly caught shrimps in the basket, finger-sized and thin. Like Miaoer, alive and kicking. The tea shed was full of fires, and the stove was small, so he couldn't make any fast-fried dishes, so he cut off the heads of the shrimps, turned the pot red, and then scooped a ladle of Xitou spring to line it. With a handful of green wild greens, it is lightly boiled into a pot of delicious and unusual shrimp soup.
The other side dishes were also prepared in a simple but not crude way, and they had prepared five or six dishes out of the box.
Over there, Li Hu ran away desperately, not wanting to miss his feet, and almost bumped into the smile who was going to look for Qi Wenjun by the stream, Li Hu forgot the pain before his scar healed, and now he saw the beautiful woman who was alone, how dare he be lustful He went forward to tease him heartily, but he was brave and unscheming. It can be said that he had evil intentions but no courage. He said it was teasing, but in fact it was just teasing with words and touching while struggling. The other party's smooth and fragrant fingers.
He didn't pick up the handkerchief that he threw on the ground with a smile until he scared the people away, put it under his nose and smelled it contentedly, and continued to walk forward carelessly. After wandering not far, when he looked up, he saw a very luxurious carriage quietly parked by the water. It had become a habit for him to get something for nothing. Sneaked over, trying to walk along with three melons and two dates.
You can often walk by the river without getting your shoes wet.
Li Hu's hand just touched the carved carriage, when suddenly a cold light flashed from the corner of his eyes, he was suffocated for breath, as if he was frozen in place, only to watch the cold light fall, gradually condensing into a three-foot-long cold iron.
Something was falling drop by drop from the tip of the sword, and when it landed on the new grass stalks, it was dyed scarlet in an instant. There was another slap, and his frozen eyeballs moved slowly, and he saw a bloody hand lying in the grass, with the embroidered handkerchief full of balsamic scent even clutched between the fingers.
Li Hu's eyes were wide open, and he screamed: "Ah! My hand, my hand!"
He fell to the ground in pain, clutching his broken arm and rolling all over the floor.
Lu Yanjia stepped out from the back of the car, narrowing his eyes viciously, looking at the blood-smeared Li Hu, like a river fish struggling in vain: "Whoever insults my wife shall be killed." He raised his head slightly, holding Jian paced away, walked straight to a tree, and pulled out a trembling hand from behind. His face was bleeding, and he was holding a knife in his hand. Taking good care of her, she was completely different from just now: "Smile, did you see it?"
He sliced off one's arm, which is an understatement like he sliced a cucumber.
Lu Yanjia squeezed Hanxiao's hand, and suddenly heard a groan from the beauty's mouth, he raised the sleeve of Hanxiao's sleeve with the sword hilt of his right hand. With a smile, she trembled subconsciously, her face faded pale. In the sleeve, half of the forearm was swollen and red, Lu Yanjia frowned, rubbed it gently, and sighed helplessly: "You should be more obedient, my husband will naturally love you."
He said with a cold look on his face: "Your sisters, the golden branches and jade leaves, are all for your husband's heart and soul. How can you be willing to work hard for your husband? Although you are out to pick green plants, you can just ask the servants to dig a few plants. Why bother to do it yourself? Do it, don’t talk about dirty hands, if you don’t distinguish vegetation and dig up some poisonous things, the gain will not be worth the loss.”
Hanxiao froze all over, her mind went blank, she grabbed Lu Yanjia's arm instead, and asked anxiously, "Where is Sister Wenjun? Where did you lock Sister Wenjun again?"
Lu Yanjia said coldly: "Is this how you talk to your husband?"
With a smile on his face, he seemed to have a heart-to-heart connection, and regardless of Lu Yanjia's prestige, he ran to the carriage, opened the heavy curtain, and smelled a faint smell in the carriage, which was mixed with the fragrance of his daughter's powder. With a trace of fishy smell, a figure curled up inside, motionless. Terrified, she hurriedly climbed into the car and shook the other party: "Sister Wenjun..."
I didn't know where I touched it, and when I raised my hand, it was all red.
Suddenly there was a crash in the car, Qi Wenjun slowly raised his hand, touched the smiling knee, and said weakly: "It's okay, it's okay... It will be fine tomorrow."
Following her hand with a smile, she actually pulled out a cold iron chain, and the lock was fastened to the carriage. She didn't know where the courage came from, but she dared to disassemble the iron chain in front of Lu Yanjia. She remained motionless, as if she was in despair, she turned her head and cried hoarsely to Lu Yanjia: "How could you - how could you treat her like this! She is your wife!"
"My wife?" Lu Yanjia sneered, took out a basket out of nowhere, and threw it heavily on the two of them. My wife, how vicious does she have to pick this poison to harm me? Smile, as long as you don't betray me, I will naturally treat you well and obey everything."
"You..." Hanxiao stared at a pile of white mushrooms for a moment, and wanted to say more, but was held by Qi Wenjun. She shook her head very slowly, signaling to Hanxiao not to say any more, not to touch that person's Ni Lin again, Don't even engage in this pointless fight.
The two sisters fell silent and said nothing, as if surrendered.
"Going back to the city, there is one less person on the way, you are the only one asking!" Lu Yanjia called a servant to guard them, then fled away, got into another carriage, and kicked Li Hu who was lying on the ground waiting to die before leaving.
The carriage drove slowly, and gradually drove away from the mountain stream. The branches were colorful, wrapped in a trace of warmth that was fading away, as if the last bit of hope had been stripped from them. With a smile on his knees, he stood beside Qi Wenjun, hugging her with tears in his arms, and muttering to himself: "I don't want to be obedient. Sister, what crime have we committed, what crime have we committed..."
Qi Wenjun's eyes dimmed, and he said, "It's our fate."